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Nitrogen losses from soil as affected by water and fertilizer management under drip irrigation: Development, hotspots and future perspectives Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Qi Wei, Qi Wei, Junzeng Xu, Yuzhou Liu, Dong Wang, Shengyu Chen, Wenhao Qian, Min He, Peng Chen, Xuanying Zhou, Zhiming Qi
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Water productivity in pineapple (Ananas comosus) cultivation using plastic film to reduce evaporation and percolation Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Eugênio Ferreira Coelho, Lenilson Wisner Ferreira Lima, Blair Stringam, Aristoteles Pires de Matos, Dionei Lima Santos, Domingo Haroldo Reinhardt, Lucas de Melo Velame, Carlos Eduardo Magalhães dos Santos, Fernando França da Cunha
Irrigated agriculture needs significant amounts of water for increasing irrigated areas to meet the increase food demand. New alternatives with high water use efficiency are needed to increase crop productivity. This work evaluates the use of plastic film mulch either as groundcover or as a percolation barrier to increase yields and water use efficiency of pineapple ( L.). An experiment was carried
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Negative effects of water deficit on cocoa tree yield are partially mitigated by irrigation and potassium application Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Lucette Adet, Danaë M.A. Rozendaal, Arthur Tapi, Pieter A. Zuidema, Philippe Vaast, Niels P.R. Anten
Yields of most tropical crops are strongly reduced by drought, but this may be partially mitigated by irrigation and potassium application. Understanding the mechanisms regulating these relationships is essential to select crop varieties reaching high yield under environmental stress. We conducted a 2-year field experiment (2020–2022) to investigate the effects of seasonal irrigation, potassium application
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Biochar effects on soil nitrogen retention, leaching and yield of perennial citron daylily under three irrigation regimes Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Xiaolei Sun, Xiaosong Yang, Zhengyi Hu, Fulai Liu, Zijian Xie, Songyan Li, Guoxi Wang, Meng Li, Zheng Sun, Roland Bol
Biochar can serve as a soil amendment to immobilize soil nitrogen (N) and reduce N leaching from cropland without negative effect on crop yield. However, the interaction effect of biochar application and irrigation regimes on soil N status (N retention and N loss) and crop yield is rarely reported in the open perennial vegetable field. A two-years field trial (transplanting in first year and consecutive
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Water footprint in rainfed summer and winter crops: The role of soil moisture Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Paula Olivera Rodríguez, Mauro Ezequiel Holzman, Maite M. Aldaya, Raúl Eduardo Rivas
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Water deficit drip irrigation promotes citrus sugar accumulation during the late growth stages Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Ningbo Cui, Yuxuan Zha, Zhihui Wang, Fei Chen, Shouzheng Jiang, Wenjiang Zhang, Bin Zhu, Zongjun Wu, Shunsheng Zheng, Ziling He, Lu Zhao
Water deficit drip irrigation (WDDI) in citrus orchards was found has a positive effect on fruit quality, particularly enhancing the soluble sugar content during the late period of fruit growth. However, the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. In this study, four deficit irrigation levels of D-60%, D-45%, D-30%, and D-15% were set at fruit expansion stage (stage III) and maturation stage
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How do novel plant growth regulators and cultivation models strategies affect mechanical strength, lodging resistance and maize productivity in semi-arid regions? Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Shahzad Ali, Zongzhen Li, Xia Zhang, Yueling Xi, Mohammed Rafi Shaik, Mujeeb Khan
Plant growth regulators are synthetic compounds that have become a significant and technical guarantee for agricultural productivity. In China, "Jindeli", which contains active elements of ethephon and cycocel (EC), has been proven to prevent maize stem elongation, improve maize stem thickness, stem morphology and mechanical strength, root growth, lodging resistance, and yield under various cultivation
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Rehydration under extreme drought conditions affected rhizosphere microorganisms more than bulk soil in broomcorn millet farmland Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lixin Tian, Yu Yang, Youhong Song, Baili Feng
Rehydration is a primary adaptation strategy for alleviating the detrimental effects of drought on crop growth. However, the effects of rehydration on microbial communities in various compartments under drought conditions remain poorly understood. Herein, we explored the response patterns of bacterial and fungal community composition, diversity, ecological network, and assembly process in the bulk
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Assessment of the impacts of water resources allocation on the reliability, resilience and vulnerability of the water–energy–food–society (WEFS) nexus system Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Yujie Zeng, Dedi Liu, Shenglian Guo, Lihua Xiong, Pan Liu, Jie Chen, Hua Chen, Jiabo Yin, Zhenhui Wu, Wan Zhou
To ensure water, energy and food supply security in the future, examining resources shortage risks within the integrated management strategy of the water-energy-food-society (WEFS) nexus system under uncertainties is necessary. Reliability, resilience, and vulnerability (RRV) are the most popular criteria for quantifying risks. However, their current applications focus on individual systems and adopt
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Managing the water-agriculture-environment-energy nexus: Trade-offs and synergies in an arid area of Northwest China Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Xiaoyu Tang, Yue Huang, Xiaohui Pan, Tie Liu, Yunan Ling, Jiabin Peng
Water is a stabilizer for production and life in the arid areas. According to research shared by the Pacific Institute and The Guardian, there were 228 incidents of water conflict globally in 2022. Therefore, comprehensive measures are necessary to achieve regional water security. This objective can be achieved by the application of interdisciplinary and professional approaches through establishing
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Effects of irrigation and fertilization with biochar on the growth, yield, and water/nitrogen use of maize on the Guanzhong Plain, China Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Pengyan Zhang, Jiangzhou Liu, Maodong Wang, Haocheng Zhang, Nan Yang, Jing Ma, Huanjie Cai
Excessive water and nitrogen inputs in agricultural production can result in resource wastage and environmental pollution. This makes it imperative to identify effective farmland management strategies to ensure sustainable agriculture development, and it remains to be explored whether biochar can be an effective solution. In this study, a 2-year (2021 and 2022) field experiment was conducted with two
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Effect of mixed plant roots on saturated hydraulic conductivity and saturated water content of soil in the loess region Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jianye Ma, Zhanbin Li, Peng Li, Bo Ma, Lie Xiao, Zhiwei Cui, Zhou Wang, Zhiqiang Min
Soil hydraulic properties are essential for understanding soil hydrological and erosion processes. The importance of roots on soil hydraulic parameters has been widely recognized, but current studies have focused mainly on the root effect of a single plant species. However, few studies have been carried out to investigate the effect of mixed plant roots on soil hydraulic parameters. Undisturbed soil
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Compensatory effect of supplementary irrigation on winter wheat under warming conditions Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Haifang Pang, Yanhao Lian, Zhibo Zhao, Hui Guo, Zongzhen Li, Junjie Hu, Yongzhe Ren, Tongbao Lin, Zhiqiang Wang
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Seasonal transpiration dynamics and water use strategy of a farmland shelterbelt in Gurbantunggut Desert oasis, northwestern China Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Bing Xue, Yan Jiang, Qijie Wang, Bin Ma, Zhen’an Hou, Xue Liang, Yirui Cui, Fangfang Li
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SolarET: A generalizable machine learning approach to estimate reference evapotranspiration from solar radiation Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Arman Ahmadi, Mohammad Hossein Kazemi, Andre Daccache, Richard L. Snyder
Irrigation is the most significant consumer of freshwater worldwide. Deciding on the right amount of irrigation is crucial for sustainable water management and food production. The Penman-Monteith (P-M) reference crop evapotranspiration (ET) is the gold standard in irrigation management and scheduling; however, its calculation requires measurements from multiple sensors over an extended reference grass
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Quantitative analysis of vegetation drought propagation process and uncertainty in the Yellow River Basin Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Liang Li, Qing Peng, Maodong Wang, Yuxin Cao, Xiaobo Gu, Huanjie Cai
Understanding the full propagation process of drought, from meteorological drought (MD) to vegetation drought (VD), could promote drought monitoring and early warning in the ecosystems. This study characterized MD, soil moisture drought (SD), and VD and their propagations using the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), the Soil Moisture Anomaly Percentage Index (SMAPI), and the
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Assessing water-nitrogen use, crop growth and economic benefits for maize in upper Yellow River basin: Feasibility analysis for border and drip irrigation Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Zhi Qi, Ya Gao, Chen Sun, Tiago B. Ramos, Danning Mu, Yihao Xun, Guanhua Huang, Xu Xu
Water-saving irrigation is becoming more important in the upper Yellow River basin (YRB) due to reduced water allocation and growing water scarcity. However, drip irrigation as an efficient irrigation method, has not gained as much acceptance as one might expect. In this study, integrated approaches involving field experiments, agro-ecosystem modeling, and financial analysis were proposed to evaluate
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Assessing the impact of irrigation and nitrogen management on potato performance under varying climate in the state of Florida, USA Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Andre Luiz Biscaia Ribeiro da Silva, Henrique Boriolo Dias, Rishabh Gupta, Lincoln Zotarelli, Senthold Asseng, Michael D. Dukes, Cheryl Porter, Gerrit Hoogenboom
Optimizing irrigation and nitrogen (N) fertilizer management in irrigated potato crops grown on sandy soils in subtropical regions such as in northeastern Florida, USA is essential to sustain a high yield and to minimize leaching. N applications in this region typically occur at approximately 25–30 days prior to planting (N), at emergence (N), and at tuber initiation (N). However, recent studies suggest
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The impacts of irrigation methods and regimes on the water and nitrogen utilization efficiency in subsoiling wheat fields Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Xuchen Liu, Junming Liu, Chao Huang, Huihao Liu, Ye Meng, Haiqing Chen, Shoutian Ma, Zhandong Liu
Long-term rotary tillage limit water infiltration and crop productivity in North China Plain (NCP). The practice of subsoiling to fracture plow pans has made beneficial impacts on soil surface structure and water infiltration. Further, appropriate irrigation method coupled with irrigation regime can improve crop productivity in subsoiling condition. A three-year field trial (2020–2023) was carried
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Emitter spacing, depth of lateral placement, and nutrient levels affect productivity of cotton-wheat cropping system under sub-surface drip fertigation Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Vaddula Yamini, Kulvir Singh
This comprehensive two-year field study investigates the transformative potential of sub-surface drip fertigation (SSDF) as a sustainable alternative to traditional surface flood irrigation coupled with manual nutrient broadcasting in the cotton-wheat cropping system (CWCS). The field experiment was laid out in a split-plot design with combination of two lateral depths (25±2.5 and 30±2.5 cm) and two
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Assessing the impacts of climate change on water resource management and crop patterns in Eastern Iran Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Fatemeh Rastegaripour, Abolfazl Tavassoli, Mahdi Babaeian, Jesús Fernández-Gálvez, Andrés Caballero-Calvo
Rapid population growth and climate change are poised to significantly impact water resources and agriculture. Consequently, it becomes imperative to delve into the repercussions of climate change on agriculture and natural resources in developing nations. In this research, an economic–hydrological model was employed to assess the influence of climate change on water management and cropping patterns
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Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Luca Zappa, Jacopo Dari, Sara Modanesi, Raphael Quast, Luca Brocca, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Christian Massari, Pere Quintana-Seguí, Anais Barella-Ortiz, Wouter Dorigo
Despite the key role of irrigation in the Earth system, we lack fundamental information regarding the distribution of irrigated fields, irrigation timing and the amount of water utilized. In the past years, the SM_Delta and SM_Inversion approaches have been independently developed to provide estimates of irrigation timing and water amounts based on satellite soil moisture data. The SM_Delta approach
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Sub-seasonal soil moisture anomaly forecasting using combinations of deep learning, based on the reanalysis soil moisture records Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Xiaoyi Wang, Gerald Corzo, Haishen Lü, Shiliang Zhou, Kangmin Mao, Yonghua Zhu, Santiago Duarte, Mingwen Liu, Jianbin Su
Sub-seasonal drought forecasting is crucial for early warning in estimating agricultural production and optimizing irrigation management, as forecasting skills are relatively weak during this period. Soil moisture exhibits stronger persistence compared to other climate system quantities, which makes it especially influential in shaping land-atmosphere feedback, thus supplying a unique insight into
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Optimizing irrigation and nitrogen management improves soil soluble nitrogen pools and reduces nitrate residues in a drip-fertigated apple orchard on the Loess Plateau Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Shuaihong Chen, Shaowu Zhang, Hui Li, Tiantian Hu, Guangzhao Sun, Xiaolu Cui, Jie Liu
Appropriate water and nitrogen fertilizer management is crucial for achieving sustainable development in the apple industry. However, the soil nitrogen supply capacity and residual nitrate characteristics under drip fertigation remain poorly understood. Therefore, this study aims to (1) investigate the coupling effects of irrigation and nitrogen levels on the concentrations and distribution characteristics
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Genotypic responses to phosphorus and water management in winter wheat: Strategies to increase resource use efficiency and productivity Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sebastián Meier, Pedro Campos, Arturo Morales, Claudio Jobet, Rafael López-Olivari, Rubén Palma-Millanao, Iván Matus, Humberto Aponte, Paula Cartes, Naser Khan, Laura Lavanderos, Alex Seguel
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Soil water distribution and water productivity in red cabbage crop using superabsorbent polymeric hydrogels under different drip irrigation regimes Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Kishor N, Manoj Khanna, G.A. Rajanna, Man Singh, Anupama Singh, Shrawan Singh, Tirthankar Banerjee, Neeraj Patanjali, Jitendra Rajput, B. Kiruthiga
The water issue has emerged as a significant barrier to agricultural productivity, particularly in dry and semiarid agro-ecologies, particularly during the winter season. Superabsorbent hydrogels have been identified as effective tools for improving crop and water productivity in arid locations by enhancing moisture retention. The application of hydrogel to soil is commonly done as a basal application
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Exploring socio-psychological factors affecting farmers' intention to choose a low-water-demand cropping pattern for water resources conservation: Application of the health belief model Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Amir Reza Nasiri, Seyyed Ahmadreza Shahangian, Reza Kerachian, Tahereh Zobeidi
Water scarcity threatens food security and leads to various economic, social, and environmental challenges, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. As the agricultural sector consumes the most significant amount of water, conserving water resources in this sector is particularly important. Cultivation of low-water-demand (LWD) crops with high value-added is one of the effective measures to reduce
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The intertemporal choice study of individual water-saving irrigation construction under three water pricing and subsidy scenarios Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yang Yang, Weijun He, Ningye Jiang, Shasha Xu, Thomas Stephen Ramsey, Liang Yuan
The world is confronted with increasing droughts exacerbated by the inefficiency of irrigation, and water-saving irrigation (WSI) holds the potential to alleviate this dilemma. Since individual farmers are important participants in WSI, it is imperative to account for their decision preferences. In addition, previous research did not consider the decision reverse in the intertemporal choice of WSI
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High-resolution satellite imagery to assess orchard characteristics impacting water use Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Pierre Rouault, Dominique Courault, Fabrice Flamain, Guillaume Pouget, Claude Doussan, Raul Lopez-Lozano, Matthew McCabe, Marta Debolini
Most Orchards throughout the Mediterranean basin rely heavily on irrigation, a dependency increasing due to climate changes. Assessing the water requirement (W) is crucial and depends on different factors, including orchard age, tree density per field, inter-row management. This study proposes new methods to evaluate these characteristics with remote sensing (RS). Various remote sensors providing high
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Reduced fertilization boosts soil quality and economic benefits in semiarid apple orchard: A two-year appraisal of fertigation strategy Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Wei Zhang, Jun-Sheng Lu, Ju Bai, Aziz Khan, Ling Zhao, Wei Wang, Shuang-Guo Zhu, Shu-Tong Liu, Jun-Min Jin, Gisacho Delphine Nyanchera, Shi-Qing Li, Xiao-Hong Tian, You-Cai Xiong
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Measurement and estimation of evapotranspiration in a maize field: A new method based on an analytical water flux model Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Yutong Liu, Yili Lu, Morteza Sadeghi, Robert Horton, Tusheng Ren
Quantifying evapotranspiration () in rainfed cropping systems can be challenging due to complicated interactions among site-specific soil, plant, and management factors. In Northeast China, and soil water status in maize fields often display strong spatial and temporal variations due to the changes in tillage practice, planting pattern, and maize plant density. Previous studies have shown that near-surface
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Irrigation water economic value and productivity: An econometric estimation for maize grain production in Italy Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Rebecca Buttinelli, Raffaele Cortignani, Francesco Caracciolo
Climate change, characterized by rising temperatures and limited precipitation, has intensified the demand for irrigation water while simultaneously restricting its availability. This challenge poses significant risks to agricultural and food production, particularly in the Mediterranean regions where, recently, water deficits have led to substantial production losses and quality issues. Water is a
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Sap flow characteristics and water demand prediction of cash crop in hyper-arid areas Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Yunfei Liu, Dongwei Gui, Xiaoping Chen, Qi Liu, Fanjiang Zeng
Crop sap flow is a critical indicator of crop water demand, and predicting its variation trend is essential for adjusting agricultural planting structure and managing water resource in hyper-arid areas. Presently, research on crop sap flow in hyper-arid areas faces limitations due to inadequate meteorological data and restricted monitoring duration, leading to imprecise assessments of environmental
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Water productivity and yield characteristics of transplanted rice in puddled soil under drip tape irrigation Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ramtin Nabipour, Mohammad Reza Yazdani, Farhad Mirzaei, Hamed Ebrahimian, Fatemeh Alipour Mobaraki
Lowland rice flooding, while consuming considerable water, has adverse environmental effects, including releasing methane into the atmosphere, aggravating climate change. Several drawbacks can be attributed to water-saving alternatives, such as aerobic rice, whereas rice drip irrigation techniques have been evaluated primarily under aerobic conditions. This study investigated drip tape irrigation technique
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Cover crops and irrigation impacts on corn production and economic returns Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Dillon Russell, Gurbir Singh, Nicolas Quintana-Ashwell, Gurpreet Kaur, Drew Gholson, L. Jason Krutz, Kelly A. Nelson
Increases in irrigated crop acreage and frequent droughts during the growing season have caused continual groundwater decline of the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer in the Mississippi Delta region. A field experiment was conducted from 2019 to 2021 to determine if combinations of irrigation scheduling thresholds and cover crops (CCs) could improve corn ( L.) production, water productivity
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Towards efficient irrigation management at field scale using new technologies: A systematic literature review Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Afaf Bounajra, Kamal El Guemmat, Khalifa Mansouri, Fatiha Akef
Life on earth is linked to water resources. Recently, alarm bells have been ringing in global organizations to raise awareness of the importance of rational use of water resources, which are becoming an increasingly scarce commodity. The majority of the world's freshwater is used for agricultural irrigation, hence there is a need to adopt an intelligent irrigation strategy that will lead to sustainable
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Influence of the sampling time interval of canopy temperature on the dynamic zoning of variable rate irrigation Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Minne Zhang, Weixia Zhao, Changxin Zhu, Jiusheng Li
Generating spatial distribution maps of canopy temperature (T) is the basis for the dynamic management of a variable rate irrigation (VRI) system based on infrared thermometers (IRTs). To improve the accuracy of management zone delineation based on T maps for summer maize and winter wheat with IRTs mounted on a moving sprinkler irrigation system, the influence of sampling time interval of T was studied
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Analysis of the responses of surface water resources to climate change in arid and semi-arid area Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Jiankun Wang, Chenfeng Cui, Zhenyu Jia, Mingtao Liu, Shijie Pang, Ke Zhai
About 70% of water withdrawals in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) are used for irrigation, and deeply explanation of the effects of climate change on runoff in the YRB provides a guarantee for agricultural production. Analysis and prediction of climate change were implemented according to the meteorological and hydrological data from 1967 to 2016, and the responses of the catchments of the six hydrological
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Influence of soil hydraulic parameters on bulb size for surface and buried emitters Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Giorgio Baiamonte, Vincenzo Alagna, Dario Autovino, Massimo Iovino, Samuel Palermo, Girolamo Vaccaro, Vincenzo Bagarello
Predicting the size expansion of wetting bulbs during surface and subsurface drip irrigation is compulsory for water saving and helps drive irrigation design and scheduling. To solve these issues, various numerical and analytical models, which take into account for the soil hydraulic parameters have been suggested in the literature. The model introduced by Philip (1984) is based on closed-form dimensionless
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Progress in joint application of crop models and hydrological models Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Yang You, Yakun Wang, Xiaodong Fan, Qin Dai, Guang Yang, Wene Wang, Dianyu Chen, Xiaotao Hu
Climate change has led to extreme weather events and food security issues, which have become urgent global problems. Crop models and hydrological models play important roles in analyzing these issues, but crop models have limitations in large-scale simulations, and hydrological models have shortcomings in depicting underlying surface details. Jointly using the two models to complement each other's
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A robust integrated agricultural drought index under climate and land use variations at the local scale in Pakistan Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Khalil Ur Rahman, Nuaman Ejaz, Songhao Shang, Khaled S. Balkhair, Khalid Mohammad Alghamdi, Kifayat Zaman, Mahmood Alam Khan, Anwar Hussain
This study aims to develop an integrated agricultural drought index (IADI) that incorporates multiple remote sensing-based agricultural drought indices, considering variations in climate and land use at a local scale in ten different agro-ecological zones (AEZs) of Pakistan from 2000 to 2020. The IADI focuses on soil moisture stress to vegetation, utilizing the soil moisture condition index (SMCI)
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Coupled mechanisms of water deficit and soil salinity affecting tomato fruit growth Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Xianbo Zhang, Hui Yang, Taisheng Du
Water deficit and soil salinity lead to lower yield by limiting fruit growth. Investigating the process mechanisms by which water and salt stress limit fruit growth is important to fully exploit the biological and agronomic water saving potential of tomato in saline soils. We set up two irrigation regimes (W0, 90% of field capacity as the upper limit; W3, 60% of field capacity as the upper limit) and
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Urease and nitrification inhibitors with drip fertigation strategies to mitigate global warming potential and improve water-nitrogen efficiency of maize under semi-arid regions Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yang Sunling, Ali Shahzad, Meng Wang, Yueling Xi, Mohammed Rafi Shaik, Mujeeb Khan
The limited availability of water resources and the significant loss of nitrogen oxides are severe constraints on agricultural development in dry-land agricultural systems of China. The field studies consisted of two new inhibitors (1) nitrification inhibitor (N) (3,4-dimethyl-1 H-pyrazol-1-yl) succinic acid isomer (DMPSA) and (2) urease inhibitor (U) N-butyl thiophosphorictriamide (NBPT) with three
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Changes in soil hydraulic and physio-chemical properties under treated wastewater irrigation: A meta-analysis Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Lin Wang, Guillaume Blanchy, Wim Cornelis, Sarah Garré
Treated wastewater (TWW) is increasingly used for irrigation, but its higher salt content compared to conventional water sources can induce soil salinization and sodification. This, in turn, may result in structural degradation and deterioration of soil hydraulic properties. The practice of using TWW for irrigation is not new, and it has long been applied in arid countries, with limited other water
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Optimizing drip fertigation management to simultaneously improve the yield, water productivity and fertilizer agronomic utilization efficiency of grapes in different precipitation year patterns Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Xuelian Peng, Dianyu Chen, Zhenjiang Zhou, Jingbo Zhen, Can Xu, Xiaotao Hu, Yakun Wang
The aim of this study was to address the problems of water scarcity and low water and fertilizer use efficiency in vineyards in the Guanzhong Plain of Shaanxi, China. In the experiment, drip fertigation technology was used, including three irrigation levels (W3 (100% M, and M as the irrigation quota), W2 (75% M) and W1 (50% M)) and four fertilization levels (F3 (648 kg/hm), F2 (486 kg/hm), F1 (324 kg/hm)
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Optimizing actual evapotranspiration simulation to identify evapotranspiration partitioning variations: A fusion of physical processes and machine learning techniques Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Xiaoman Jiang, Yuntao Wang, Yinglan A., Guoqiang Wang, Xiaojing Zhang, Guangwen Ma, Limin Duan, Kai Liu
Evapotranspiration (ET) serves as a pivotal metric for studying ecohydrological processes. Its dynamics are intricately linked to the interplay among water balance, energy balance, and land use. However, the precise estimation of ET at a regional scale, coupled with a comprehensive understanding of its response to changes in water, heat, and vegetation factors, presents an ongoing challenge. In this
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Grain yield and water productivity of winter wheat controlled by irrigation regime and manure substitution in the North China Plain Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Zhenxing Yan, Wenying Zhang, Xiuwei Liu, Qingsuo Wang, Binhui Liu, Xurong Mei
Manure application is considered a good way to modify soil structure and hydraulic properties and has the potential to promote water productivity. Therefore, the potential for improving water savings and water productivity through the use of manure as a substitute for mineral fertilizer is worth further exploration in deficit irrigation regions. A field experiment with four irrigation regimes and four
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Effects of PGPR and γ-PGA on maize growth and rhizosphere microbial community in saline soil Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Wenzhi Zeng, Yaling Hou, Chang Ao, Jiesheng Huang
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Estimating daily kiwifruit evapotranspiration under regulated deficit irrigation strategy using optimized surface resistance based model Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Liwen Xing, Ningbo Cui, Chunwei Liu, Li Guo, Long Zhao, Zongjun Wu, Xuelian Jiang, Shenglin Wen, Lu Zhao, Daozhi Gong
Accurate evapotranspiration (ET) estimation is paramount for effective agricultural water management. As the key parameter of surface resistance (r)-based ET models, the direct acquisition of canopy resistance (r) remains challenge. Moreover, the applicability of r models and r-based ET models has not been fully validated on kiwifruit. To address above problems, this study investigates tree growth
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Response of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) to foliar wetting with low pH mine waters containing acid-generating metal cations Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mzwandile Mabuza, John Annandale, Martin Steyn, Phil Tanner, Meiring Du Plessis
Acid mine drainage (AMD) contains metals that have detrimental effects on crop growth if present in excess in plant-available form. The use of untreated AMD from coal mines for crop irrigation on strategically limed soils is considered a potential option for mine water management, especially in remote areas without access to water treatment infrastructure. However, leaf scorching and trace element
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Optimizing irrigation schedules of greenhouse tomato based on a comprehensive evaluation model Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Junwei Zhang, Lingxiao Xiang, Yuxin Liu, Dan Jing, Lili Zhang, Yong Liu, Wuqiang Li, Xiaoyan Wang, Tianlai Li, Jianming Li
In the context of climate change, water availability has emerged as a pressing concern in agriculture, indicating the urgency to enhance irrigation management. Nevertheless, accurately quantifying irrigation schedules in diverse climates and soil textures remains a complex challenge. Here, a three-year irrigation experiment (2020–2022) of greenhouse tomato was conducted at three typical locations (Yulin
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Constructing a map of potassium inputs to paddy fields from irrigation Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Tatsuhiro Nishikiori, Tomijiro Kubota, Shigeto Fujimura
Geographical and geological parameters, including land use, lithology, and water quality, and volume of irrigation were investigated to map K inputs into paddy fields from irrigation in the eastern part of Fukushima, Japan. This area has had one of the greatest needs for K maintenance worldwide due to the control of radiocesium uptake by plants after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. The K concentration
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Ador-Solid-Set: A coupled simulation model for commercial solid-set irrigated fields Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Enrique Playán, Nery Zapata, Borja Latorre, José Cavero, Piluca Paniagua, Eva T. Medina, María Angeles Lorenzo, Javier Burguete
The last five decades have seen strong developments in irrigation modeling. In solid-set sprinkler irrigation, models have generally been applied to a few sprinklers in a regular arrangement, making them representative of a sector or a field. In this research, the Ador-Solid-Set model for whole-field solid-set sprinkler irrigation is presented, validated and applied to simulate an irrigation event
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Evaluation of daily crop reference evapotranspiration and sensitivity analysis of FAO Penman-Monteith equation using ERA5-Land reanalysis database in Sicily, Italy Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Matteo Ippolito, Dario De Caro, Marcella Cannarozzo, Giuseppe Provenzano, Giuseppe Ciraolo
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Linking water markets with payments for watershed services: the eastern route of China's South-North Water Transfer Project Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Jichuan Sheng, Hongqiang Yang
This study develops an analytical framework that takes a dynamic game approach to links between water markets and payments for watershed services (PWS). Using a case study of the eastern route of China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP-ER), this study explores the changing behavior of various stakeholders in the water market in different PWS scenarios and the economic rationality driving
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Risk evaluation for the combined clogging of subsurface drainage envelopes in arid areas Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Chenyao Guo, Xinman Jiang, Jingwei Wu, Shuai Qin, Shuai He, Haoyu Yang, Rui Zhang, Chenzhi Yao
Accurately assessing the clogging risk of the drainage pipe envelopes is a prerequisite for the reasonable design and proper management of subsurface drainage. However, the current assessment of clogging risk for subsurface drainage envelopes in arid areas mainly focuses on the impacts of single factors such as physical or chemical factors, with less attention given to combined physical–chemical clogging
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Evapotranspiration partitioning by integrating eddy covariance, micro-lysimeter and unmanned aerial vehicle observations: A case study in the North China Plain Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Jiang Bian, Xiaolong Hu, Liangsheng Shi, Leilei Min, Yucui Zhang, Yanjun Shen, Fenghua Zhao, Yuanyuan Zha, Xie Lian, Jiesheng Huang
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Combining the FAO-56 method and the complementary principle to partition the evapotranspiration of typical plantations and grasslands in the Chinese Loess Plateau Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Chong Fu, Xiaoyu Song, Lanjun Li, Xinkai Zhao, Pengfei Meng, Long Wang, Wanyin Wei, Songle Guo, Deming Zhu, Xi He, Dongdan Yang, Huaiyou Li
Quantifying the evapotranspiration () water consumption characteristics of typical vegetation [ (single vegetation), mixed plantations of and (double-mixed vegetation), and natural grassland (multiple-mixed vegetation)] in the Chinese Loess Plateau has both theoretical and practical significance. However, the proportionality and inverse hypotheses of , namely, the FAO-56 method and generalized complementary
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Unperforated film-covered planting contributes to improved film recovery rates and foxtail millet grain yields in sandy soils Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Lina Chang, Rui Liu, Jiakun Yan, Suiqi Zhang
Plastic film mulching improves the soil water content and temperature and, thus, contributes to enhanced grain yield in arid and semi-arid areas, such as Northwest China. However, in traditional film-covering methods, plastic films are difficult to recycle, causing environmental issues. Therefore, developing cultivation methods with enhanced film recovery rates is important for sustainable agricultural
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Effects of spring limited irrigation on grain yield and root characteristics of winter wheat in groundwater-overexploitation areas in the North China Plain Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Li Wang, Xiaoli Liu, Xuejing Liu, Xiaoyuan Bao, Xuecheng Zhang, Baozhong Yin, Wentao Wang, Yandong Wang, Wenchao Zhen
Understanding the effects of limited irrigation on wheat yield and root characteristics is crucial for maintaining sustainable agricultural development in the groundwater-overexploitation zone of the North China Plain. We evaluated these effects in two winter wheat cultivars: Shimai22 (SM22, deep root system) and Shinong086 (SN086, shallow root system). Irrigation treatments were traditional irrigation